Duke Faculty Should Be Shunned By Students ["Courses and Classrooms of These 88 Should Be Emptied"]

Newsday ^ | 08/03/2007 | Joseph W. Bellacosa

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Accountability finally came to Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong last month, when he was disbarred as an attorney and forced to resign as a disgraced public officer. Last week he issued an apology and a full retraction of the rape accusations against three Duke University lacrosse players.

Now, with students heading to Duke in just a few short weeks for the beginning of the fall term, the time is at hand to demand some accountability for Nifong's academic enablers.

Eighty-eight members of the Duke faculty publicly promulgated a dreadful letter, enflaming a premature and prejudicial atmosphere against their own students. Yet, their conduct is largely shielded from accountability. Equally troublesome, their ironically and suddenly protective university masters executed a confidential settlement to further immunize the Duke cabal from civil liability exposure.

[JLS]

ping

[rocksblues]

Any person entering Duke this fall deserves whatever happens to them.

[abb]

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[rabscuttle385]

Teehee silly Dook students.

[MeanWestTexan]

Here is what I understand to be the list of the 88 teachers. Perhaps we should each randomly pick out one or two and ask them to apologize?

Abe, Stan (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
stanley.abe@duke.edu 919.684.2487 F 919.684.4398

Albers, Benjamin (University Writing Program)
albers@duke.edu 919.660.4371

Allison, Anne (Cultural Anthropology)
anne.allison@duke.edu 919.681.6257 F 919.681.8483

Aravamudan, Srinivas (English)
srinivas@duke.edu 919.684.2640

Baker, Houston (English and AAAS)
houston.a.baker@vanderbilt.edu

Baker, Lee (Cultural Anthropology)
ldbaker@duke.edu 919.681.3263 F 919.681.8483
http://www.duke.edu/~ldbaker/

Beaule, Christine
cbeaule@duke.edu 919.660.7065

Beckwith, Sarah (English)
ott@duke.edu 919.684.8705, 2741 F 919.684.4871

Berliner, Paul (Music)
paul.berliner@duke.edu 919.660.3322

Blackmore, Connie (AAAS)
connie.blackmore@duke.edu 919.684.2830, 5140
F 919 684 2832

Boa, Jessica (Religion & University Writing Program) ?

Boatwright, Mary T. (Classical Studies)
tboat@duke.edu 919.684.3189 or 5076 F 919.681.4262

Boero, Silvia (Romance Studies)
silvia.boero@duke.edu 919.660.3100

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (Sociology)
919.660.5618

Brim, Matthew (University Writing Program)
matthew.brim@duke.edu 919.660.4381

Chafe, William (History)
william.chafe@duke.edu 919.684.5436 F 919.681.7670

Ching, Leo (Asian & African Languages)
lching@duke.edu 919.684.5240, 4309 F 919.681.7871

Coles, Rom (Political Science)
coles@duke.edu 919.660.4310 F 919.660.4330

Cooke, Miriam (Asian & African Languages)
mcw@duke.edu 919.684.2312, 4309 F 919.681.7871

Crichlow, Michaeline (AAAS)
michaeline.crichlow@duke.edu 919.684.2830

Curtis, Kim (Political Science)
kcurtis@duke.edu 919.660.4320 F 919.660.4300
http://www.duke.edu/~kcurtis/

Damasceno, Leslie (Romance Studies)
ljhd@duke.edu 919.660.3100, 3120 F 919.684.4029

Davidson, Cathy (English)
cathy.davidson@duke.edu 919.684.8472 F 919.668.1919

Deutsch, Sarah (History)
sarah.deutsch@duke.edu 919.668.2746

Dorfman, Ariel (Literature & Latin American Stds.)
adorfman@duke.edu 919.684.6432, 6054 F 919.684.8749

Edwards, Laura (History) l
edwards@duke.edu 919.668.1435 F 919.681.7670

Farred, Grant (Literature)
grant.farred@duke.edu 919.668.1754 F 919.684.3598

Fellin, Luciana (Romance Studies)
fellin@duke.edu 919.660.3117

Fulkerson, Mary McClintock (Divinity School)
mfulk@duke.edu 919.660.3400, 3458

Gabara, Esther (Romance Studies)
egabara@duke.edu 919.660.3100, 3112

Gavins, Raymond (History)
raymond.gavins@duke.edu 919.684.2508 F 919.681.7670

Greer, Meg (Romance Studies)
mgreer@duke.edu

Glymph, Thavolia (History)
thavolia@duke.edu 919.668.1625
http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/
faculty.html#Thavolia

Hardt, Michael (Literature)
hardt@duke.edu 919.684.3408

Harris, Joseph (University Writing Program)
joseph.harris@duke.edu
http://www.duke.edu/~jdharris/

Holloway, Karla (English)
karla.holloway@duke.edu 919.684.8993

Holsey, Bayo (AAAS)
bayo.holsey@duke.edu 919.684.4067

Hovsepian, Mary (Sociology) ?

James, Sherman (Public Policy)
sjames@duke.edu 919.613.9257

Kaplan, Alice (Literature)
alice.kaplan@duke.edu 919.684.4228

Khalsa, Keval Kaur (Dance Program)
keval.khalsa@duke.edu 919.660.3373

Khanna, Ranjana (English)
rkhanna@duke.edu 919.668.2548
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/WomensStudies/
secondary/rkhanna

King, Ashley (Romance Studies)
aek2@duke.edu 919.660.3123

Koonz, Claudia (History)
ckoonz@duke.edu 919.684.3941

Lasch, Peter (Art, Art History)
pedro.lasch@duke.edu 919.684.3308 F 919.684.4398

Lee, Dan A. (Math) ?

Leighten, Pat (Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)

919.660.6979 Fax 919.660.2821

Lentricchia, Frank (Literature)
frll@duke.edu 919.684.6172

Light, Caroline (Inst. for Crit. U.S. Stds.)
clight@duke.edu 919.668.1945

Litle, Marcy (Comparative Area Studies)
marcy.litle@duke.edu 919.660.4353 F 919.684.8749

Litzinger, Ralph (Cultural Anthropology)
rlitz@duke.edu 919.681.6250

Longino, Michele (Romance Studies)
michele.longino@duke.edu 011.33.1.55.42.82.52 (France)

Lubiano, Wahneema (AAAS and Literature)
wah@duke.edu 919.681.2843
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/09/
nifongs-strange-bedfellows.html

Maffitt, Kenneth(History)
kmaffitt@duke.edu 919.681.3982 F 919.681.7966

Mahn, Jason (University Writing Program)
jmahn@duke.edu 919.660.4355, 4368

Makhulu, Anne-Maria (AAAS)
annemaria.makhula@duke.edu

Mason, Lisa (Surgical Unit-2100)
lbmason@duke.edu

McClain, Paula (Political Science)
pmcclain@duke.edu 919.660.4303
http://www.duke.edu/~pmcclain/

Meintjes, Louise (Music)
meintjes@duke.edu 919.660.3339

Mignolo, Walter (Literature and Romance Studies)
wmignolo@acpub.duke.edu 919.668.1949, 2151
http://www.duke.edu/literature/www.duke.edu/
~wmignolo

Moreiras, Alberto (Romance Studies)
alberto.moreiras@duke.edu 919.668.1950

Neal, Mark Anthony (AAAS)
man9@duke.edu 919.684.3987
http://newblackman.blogspot.com/

Nelson, Diane (Cultural Anthropology)
dmnelson@duke.edu 919.684.2069

Olcott, Jolie (History)
olcott@duke.edu

Parades, Liliana (Romance Studies)
lparedes@duke.edu 919.660.3124

Payne, Charles (AAAS and History)
cmpayne@duke.edu 919.684.5764
http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/index.html

Pierce-Baker, Charlotte (Women’s Studies)
cpierceb@duke.edu 919.684.5683

Pebles-Wilkins, Wilma ?

Petters, Arlie (Math)
petters@math.duke.edu 919.660.2812 F 919.660.2821

Plesser, Ronen (Physics)
plesser@cgtp.duke.edu 919.660.9668 F 919.660.2525
http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~plesser/

Radway, Jan (Literature) ?

Rankin, Tom (Ctr for Documentary Studies)
tsr2@duke.edu
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/AAH/faculty/tsr2

Rego, Marcia (University Writing Program)
marcia.rego@duke.edu

Reisinger, Deborah S. (Romance Studies)
debsreis@duke.edu 919.660.8435

Rosenberg, Alex (Philosophy)
alexrose@duke.edu 919.660.3047, 3050
http://www.duke.edu/~alexrose

Rudy, Kathy (Women’s Studies)
krudy@acpub.duke.edu 919.684.4063

Schachter, Marc (English)
marc.schachter@duke.edu 919.660.2421

Shannon, Laurie (English)
lshannon@duke.edu 919.684.2741

Sigal, Pete (History)
peter.sigal@duke.edu 919.684.3551

Silverblatt, Irene (Cultural Anthropology)
isilver@duke.edu 919.684.3516

Somerset, Fiona (English)
somerset@duke.edu 919.684.5275

Stein, Rebecca (Cultural Anthropology)
rlstein@duke.edu 919.684.5611

Thorne, Susan (History)
sthorne@duke.edu 919.684.8945

Viego, Antonio (Literature)
antonioviego@yahoo.com 919.668.2687
duke.edu/womstud/~aviego

Vilaros, Teresa (Romance Studies)
teresa.vilaros@duke.edu 919.660.3108

Wald, Priscilla (English)
pwald@duke.edu 919.684.6869

Wallace, Maurice (English and AAAS)
mwallace@duke.edu 919.684.3939

Wong, David (Philosophy)
dbwong@duke.edu 919.660.3046

[JLS]

He makes a very powerful argument and comes up with a way to show the 88 gangsters how they are viewed by respectable people. Unfortunately the 88 have their acolytes among the Duke student body so their courses would not be completely empty, but NO ONE should ever take their courses again except for the one member who apologized.

[SeaHawkFan]

I noticed that not one of those professors teach anything that requires scientific reasoning or logic.

[givemELL]

Gen. Public becoming more aware of Dogmatics 101 and the pervasive prominence of it in our higher educational institution., The canning of Ward Churchill was a painfully slow process. Maybe the next few episodes will result in an acceleration of the pace of resistance and increasing momentum against what has choked these places since the ‘60s..this Nifong business is a chance to focus more light on this garbage and improve the nationally desired drive to ensure more objectivity and actual scholarship of the old style of education that has been so badly subducted..I used the word subducted as, geologically, the process results in vast heat production and earthquakes..maybe such a process is at work here.

[Continental Soldier]

Duke University has successfully protected the gang of 88 from further actions by the falsly accused. But that group of entrenched Stalinist asassins must be held up to public notice. They cannot be allowed to fade quietly into the halls of academe, only to wait there for another opportunity to betray both the rule of law and the presumption of innocence in favor of a twisted and false agenda. Those faculty members are a continuing disgrace to both Duke University and to any notion of fair play in American society.

[Old Sarge]

One medical prof.

One Math prof.

One Physics prof.

The rest are liberal arts/hunanities.

Why am I not surprised...

[ontap]

Hate mongering ,riot inciting bigots every last one of them.

[ECM]

Who apologized?

[Old Sarge]

Which was that one contrite soul?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

JLS: am I correct in remembering that it was the one Physics instructor who (eventually) recanted...?

[MeanWestTexan]

I think there is one physics guy.

[metmom]

I don’t understand why anyone in their right minds would want to go there. Do they really think something like that can’t/won’t happen to them, too? Idiots.

[MeanWestTexan]

And there you have it.

[metmom]

Only three teach anything that sounds even remotely useful for real life.

[JLS]

Professor Johnson has this quote:

Math professor Arlie Petters said, “Whenever something causes undue pain to people, then of course that isn’t something I would want to be a part of.”

He calls it an apology and if the full context is not too different, then I could see that point of view. It does not seem to be an, I was wrong and I am sorry statement, from the part quoted, but it is at least a step.